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Fresh Pick | RETURN TO TRADD STREET by Karen White
Fresh Pick / January 30, 2014

Tradd Street #4 January 2014 On Sale: January 7, 2014 Featuring: Jack Trenholm; Melanie Middleton 336 pages ISBN: 0451240596 EAN: 9780451240590 Kindle: B00DGZI9CW Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish ListRomance, Romance ParanormalBuy at Amazon.com a little romance, some ghosts and a mystery. Perfect paranormal Return to Tradd Street by Karen White You can’t start over when the past is left undone Facing her future as a single mother, psychic Realtor Melanie Middleton is determined to be strong and leave her past with writer Jack Trenholm behind her. But history has a tendency of catching up with Melanie, whether she likes it or not.… Melanie is only going through the motions of living since refusing Jack’s marriage proposal. She misses him desperately, but her broken heart is the least of her problems. Despite an insistence that she can raise their child alone, Melanie is completely unprepared for motherhood, and she struggles to complete renovations on her house on Tradd Street before the baby arrives. When Melanie is roused one night by the sound of a ghostly infant crying, she chooses to ignore it. She simply does not have the energy to deal with one more crisis. That is, until the remains…

Cheryl Bolen | Alpha or Beta Hero?
Author Guest / January 30, 2014

What kind of heroes do it for you? One school of thought has it that Alpha heroes rule. You know, those sexy billionaires who are strong, handsome, and powerful. Then there’s the school of thought that likes a sensitive guy, one with a soft spot for babies and pets. This kind of hero can be a regular guy—like many of our husbands. Perhaps he’s a fireman, who’s heroic in his day job. When I cut my teeth on romance novels many years ago, I loved the Harlequin Presents formula. Handsome tycoon. Shy, submissive heroine who’s swept off her feet like a Cinderella. (After all, Cinderella was my all-time favorite children’s story!) When I morphed over to historical romance, naturally I wanted aristocratic heroes. So when I started publishing historical romances back in the nineties, my first hero (A DUKE DECEIVED)  was a duke. My second (A LADY BY CHANCE) was a marquess. Other books that have followed have names like MY LORD WICKED, THE EARL’S BARGAIN, and HIS LORDSHIP’S VOW. You get the picture. Now that I’m finishing up my second decade publishing romance novels, I’ve discovered something about myself that parallels with my creation of heroes. When I was…